UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
1–10 of 43 posts
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#2This comes up every few months. ContentID is a system for ensuring that the major labels get paid, and people who don't have enough money for legal representation lose out either way.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#3Unless you're another multibillion dollar company, you are a resource to Google, not a customer or a peer.
Also, this is a good lesson in why people should be careful about how they license out their music in the first place.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#4Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for. In this case aiding in the infringement of Copyright because it is the Content ID system, with a borked refusal policy, that are allowing UMG to pirate the artist's music and to make a profit from it. Not only from the artist but anyone who was paying license fees to the artist are now having their video revenue get hijacked by UMG.
Seems like class action status might be possible.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#5But god forbid you put a 30-second clip of you and your friends messing around, with a Beyonce song in the background or whatever.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#6This comes up every few months. ContentID is a system for ensuring that the major labels get paid, and people who don't have enough money for legal representation lose out either way.
Yeah, and fair use doesn't exist on YT for all intents and purposes. Effectively ContentID is actually much more restrictive than real copyright law by far, and there's nothing anyone can do about it because YT is a private company and you don't HAVE to use them (although the lack of competition is disheartening).
It is an unfortunate situation all around, one that I don't see changing any time soon... Only legitimate competition could fix this.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#7Offer to face your counterpart at UMG in single unarmed combat as a way to settle the matter honorably.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#8Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for. In this case aiding in the infringement of Copyright because it is the Content ID system, with a borked refusal policy, that are allowing UMG to pirate the artist's music and to make a profit from it. Not only from the artist but anyone who was paying license fees to the artist are now having their video revenue get hijacked by UMG. Seems…
I agree. This comes up frequently enough that it seems like there could be a legitimate class action of some kind.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#9This comes up every few months. ContentID is a system for ensuring that the major labels get paid, and people who don't have enough money for legal representation lose out either way.
ContentID is a system for keeping Viacom et al. from launching more billion-dollar lawsuits against Google.
Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
#10Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for. In this case aiding in the infringement of Copyright because it is the Content ID system, with a borked refusal policy, that are allowing UMG to pirate the artist's music and to make a profit from it. Not only from the artist but anyone who was paying license fees to the artist are now having their video revenue get hijacked by UMG. Seems…
I agree. This comes up frequently enough that it seems like there could be a legitimate class action of some kind.
Even in the FB post, there's a lot of "me too"'s.
At the very least offer to sit everyone down at a table and talk it out (I'm still partial to the unarmed combat solution, but that's me).